OH Nature Enthusiasts, Artists, Writers
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Topic: OH Nature Enthusiasts, Artists, Writers
Posted By: Eric Melbye
Subject: OH Nature Enthusiasts, Artists, Writers
Date Posted: Mar 22 2009 at 9:34pm
Miami University Middletown's Artist & Lecture Series Presents:
Julie Zickefoose: Letters from Eden
Thursday, March 26
7:00 p.m.
Miami Middletown Downtown
4 North Main St.
Free and open to the public
Parking behind the building
A regular commentator on National Public Radio, Julie Zickefoose is a widely published natural history writer and artist. Educated at Harvard University in biology and art, she worked for six years as a field biologist for The Nature Conservancy before turning to a freelance art career. She has presented illustrated lectures for nature organizations and festivals across the country, and exhibited her paintings at universities, museums, galleries, and in juried shows. Her writing and illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Spider, Cricket, Ladybug, Country Journal, Bird Watcher's Digest, and the Academy of Natural Sciences’ landmark 17-volume work, The Birds of North America.
Letters from Eden is a naturalist's journal, telling the countless small stories of the woods and meadows in flowing prose and lively watercolors. Copperheads strike; starlings battle and become prey; bullfrogs snap up hummingbirds in Julie Zickefoose's essays. Though firmly rooted in southern Ohio, this book has struck a powerful chord with readers nationwide, evoking the rhythms of the seasons and an awareness of natural events that many people long for in the age of “nature deficit disorder.” Scott Weidensaul, author of Return to Wild America, notes how “Zickefoose's fluid writing brings this patch of the Appalachian foothills to surging, riotous, fascinating life. There is joy in this book…the clear-eyed wisdom of a woman who knows the land in all its moods.”
Reading from her work while showing her paintings and photographs, Julie will reveal the deep connection with nature that keeps her walking her 80-acre Appalachian sanctuary outside Whipple, Ohio. Signed copies of Letters from Eden will be available for purchase. Find out more about her and view samples of her work at her web site:
http://www.juliezickefoose.com - www.juliezickefoose.com
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Eric Melbye, Director
Office of Community Engagement and Service @ MUM
Miami University Middletown
http://www.mid.muohio.edu/community - www.mid.muohio.edu/community
mumccc@muohio.edu
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